Word: communique
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were totally opposed (President Hoover being unwilling and unable to get a U. S. Congress to vote guarantees of French Security), but they did not ''disagree." They exchanged other views. After immense constructive effort President Hoover and Premier Laval told what they had done in a joint communiqué to the World Press. They had ''recognized." They had become "convinced." And they had "canvassed." They had not signed anything...
Nobody tried to make the French do anything else. Next day the Hoover-Stimson-MacDonald Plan was adopted in a communiqué signed by Scot MacDonald. It had four features...
Thus, with the dignity of a court circular, did the official communiqué of the Bayreuth Festival last June announce the season's beginning. Rehearsals began. Was the Maestro still suffering from shock at being manhandled by Fascists in Bologna (TIME, June 22)? It seemed not. Reported the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten: "A gray mist surrounds the 'beloved hill in Bayreuth' as the orchestral instrumentalists make their pilgrimage to this season's rehearsals . . . [Toscanini's] green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises...
...communiqué from the Directorate is judged to be less grave than it might have been, in view of the existing state of tension and in view of the fact that it came not from the Government but from the directing body of the Fascist Party...
...worked hard to become a great singer. He planned to sing there as usual this year. But he asked for more than $1,000 a night, special billing, special advertising, best dressing-rooms, and of course a No. 1 star rating. Crushingly from Rome last week came an official communiqué of the Consortium of Lyric Theatres which controls all the lyric theatres and opera houses in Italy, as well as all concert artists under contract. Because of "excessive special conditions," Lauri-Volpi was for an indefinite length of time to be boycotted...